2009/10/25 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>: > Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Philip Gwyn wrote: >> >>> On 24-Oct-2009 Oliver Ransom wrote: >>>> I don't think there are any ramifications/disadvantages of running the >>>> SSH daemon on a non standard port. >> >> Unless I want to sftp. It always looks for port 22; if I do: >> >> sftp SERVER >> >> It will deny me if SERVER is anything but port 22. Doing a man sftp yields >> no help on how to solve that. Any ideas? > > I usually prefer rsync over ssh for file transfers where possible. There it > would be rsync -e 'ssh -p nnn' .... > Also, you coud set up the port on /etc/ssh/ssh_config for the name/ip of the target machine, so you don't need to type "-o Port xxx" or "-p xxx" every time. The downside is that you forget the port over time, not using it.